A triad of Gut-Brain-Immune system! How on earth does that pertain to brain health? It does. Follow me here. Your gut is your first line of defense, checking to see what is safe and not safe from the outside world. Once the food you eat and ingest...
A triad of Gut-Brain-Immune system! How on earth does that pertain to brain health? It does. Follow me here. Your gut is your first line of defense, checking to see what is safe and not safe from the outside world. Once the food you eat and ingest...
This is the hard one. Your brain needs you to exercise. And you really don’t want to. You want to sit on the couch and watch CSI. To become motivated to exercise you have to have some really primal forces pushing you. How about not eating if you...
Integrative centers boast a good deal of promise. Benefits based on published outcomes are harder to find. Maine's True North integrative center offers a rare examination and sharing of outcomes with this retrospective examination of 80 of the...
What can you do to keep a healthy brain? First, repeat after me what you have to avoid from last week. Remember? No tobacco. Cut the alcohol to one drink a day. Trans fats are poison! (No French fries). Saturated fat isn’t much better. Processed...
As I get older, there are a few things I don't want to get older. I want my joints to work so that I can get around. I want my eyes to work so that I can see. I want my brain to work so I can remember. But we have a problem. Getting older in America...
High Fructose corn syrup is known to be a danger because it is so inflammatory. It creates inflammation in our bodies. You think of it as a sweetener and a sugar. The chemical fructose is actually in the aldehyde family and is not digested like...
These two symptoms, that tend to go hand in hand, may occur as mild and bothersome moodiness or devastating dysfunction that brings life to a standstill. Wherever you or a loved one fit on this spectrum there is help for these problems with holistic...
Herbal medicine is a great supplement to any sports training program. It is simple to take a few extra pills each day, and the results can be amazing. One of the first uses is for pain and bruising. There is a long tradition in martial arts for...
The objective of this study was to evaluate the scientific evidence on stevia, including expert opinion, folkloric precedent, history, pharmacology, kinetics/dynamics, interactions, adverse effects, toxicology, and dosing. This review serves as a...
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